Ten Bundesliga Summer Transfers with the Best Value for Money

The Bundesliga that we all know and love returns to us on Friday in stunning fashion, as champions Bayern Munich host a Bayer Leverkusen side looking for footballing redemption after a season of disappointment in 2016-17.

While it would be difficult to find a better opening act to what will undoubtedly be another enthralling installment of the beautiful game brought to you by Germany, fans of the league and supporters of clubs alike are still debating summer transfer business.

So often, in so many seasons before and in the many still to come, the transfer dealings from the summer portion of the silly-season can make or break a club’s campaign, be it Borussia Dortmund’s chances of chasing down Bayern at the top, or VfB Stuttgart’s bid to re-establish themselves amongst the Bundesliga elite.

With the season just a shade over six hours away, let’s take a look at ten transfers which could have a considerable impact for the club in question.

An American, but a lover of the beautiful game, Andrew Thompson has been active in the sport for 25 years as a player, a coach and now a freelance writer. He's a diehard Arsenal supporter, but also has a special place in his heart for Borussia Dortmund and the German Bundesliga. You can find other work of his at Outside of the Boot, A Bergkamp Wonderland, and he is a podcast regular with The Football Hipsters Podcast.